Drawer pull



Sept.- 8, 1931. E. P. HAMILTON DRAWER PULL Filed March 22, 1930 v Patented Sept. 8, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE:

EDWARD P. HAMILTON, OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO HAMILTON MANU FAGTURING COMPANY, OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN DRAWER PULL Application filed March 22, 1930. Serial No. 438,059.

My invention relates to label holders and is of special utility in connection with a label holder which also constitutes a drawer pull, thoughthe invention is not to be thus limited. ()ne characteristic of my invention 10. displacement of the label from the holder.

According to this characteristic of my invention the label holder is inclusive of a body portion possessing a convexedly curved'surface which is elongated in conformity with the length of the label which is to be held and preferably continued beyond the label space for attachment to a mounting'which may be a drawer where the label holder is also a drawer pull. The longitudinal marginal portions of the convexedly curved body portion of the label holder are overlapped by label retainers which are spaced apart from the body portion of the label holder to afford grooves or spaces in which the longitudinal edges of the label may be tucked. The body of the label holder carries one or more stop formations which project beyond the label engaging face of the holder, this face by reason of its convex curvature, constraining the label to lie close to it to be coincident with the stop formations which thus cooperate with the aforesaid retainers to hold the label in place. There are desirably two stop formations one at each end of the label, though the invention is not to be thus limited.

The invention in accordance with another of its characteristics resides in forming a label holder and drawer pull from one piece of sheet metal which is preferably shaped as hitherto described, but which shape in this characteristic of my invention is not to be thus limited.

I will explain my invention more fully by reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig.1 is a perspective view illustrating a cabinet with a drawer having the label holding pull of my invention thereon; Fig. 2 is a front view of a portion of the front of thedrawer which has an improved drawer pull mounted thereon; Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 -3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is an end view; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line .5 -5 of Fig.1 2.

' I have illustrated a portion of a cabinet having a drawer 1 equipped with a label holding drawer pull of my invention. The drawer pull illustrated is formed from a single piece of sheet metal and comprises an elongated body portion 2 shaped to form a finger receiving space 8, the bottom of this space being open and the ends of it being closed by the continuations of said body portion illustrated at 4 which thus constitute end walls of the finger receiving space. These end walls have continuations 5 extending longitudinally of the drawer pull and provided with apertures through which the mounting screws 6 are passed into the drawer front. Label retaining formations 7 8 are continued from the longitudinal margins of the body portion2 of the drawer pull and are bent back to lap this body portion, spacing being left between said label retainers and said body portion, within which the label 9 may be received. The label retainers 7 are desirably in the form of elongated ribs, though the invention is not to be thus limited. Stop formations 10 are desirably struck from the body of the label holder to be coincident with the space which is occupied by the label so as to prevent endwise displacement of the label when the label is tucked into position beneath the retainers 7 and 8. While I prefer to employ two stop formations 10, the invention is not to be thus restricted.

In order that the label may be assuredly maintained coincident with the stop'forination or stop formations 10, the body 2 of the label holder is convexedly curved transversely of the holder to impart a similar curvature to the label 9 when this label is tucked beneath the retaining ribs 7 and 8.

The label facing edge of the stop formation 10 is normal to the surface of the body portion 2. as best shown in Fig. 8, thus forming 1. A label holder having an elongated body portion which is convexedly curved transversely thereof, said label holder being inclusive of label retainers at the longitudinal 5 margins of said body portion and lapping the conveXedly curved face of the holder and spaced apart from this face to afford receiving spaces for the longitudinal edge portions of the label, said holder being also inclusive of stop formations projecting beyond the convexedly curved face of the holder to be coincident with the label, the label facing edges of the stop formations being normal to the surface of the body portion.

2. A unitary label holder and drawer pull formed of a single piece of sheet material and which is inclusive of an elongated body por tion, label retainers at the longitudinal margins of said body portion and lapping this body portion from which said retainers are spaced to afford spaces within which the longitudinal edge portions of a label may be received, a stop formation struck from the body portion of the label holder to be coincident with the label receiving space, the label facing edge of the stop formation being normal to the surface of the body portion and the face of the body portion that is lapped by the label retainers being conVeXedly curved transversely of the pull to maintain the inserted label coincident with the stop formation, and end continuations of said body portion having formations enabling the attachment of the label holding drawer pull to a drawer to which such pull is to be attached, said end continuations being so related to said body portion as to afford a finger receiving space within the pull.

In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name.

EDWARD P. HAMILTON. 

